The Confessions of St. Augustine: E. B. Pusey 1838 English Translation

by Augustine of Hippo, Edward Bouverie Pusey (translator)

227 pages, Paperback

Published December 3, 2023

About the author

Early church father and philosopher Saint Augustine served from 396 as the bishop of Hippo in present-day Algeria and through such writings as the autobiographical Confessions in 397 and the voluminous City of God from 413 to 426 profoundly influenced Christianity, argued against Manichaeism and Donatism, and helped to establish the doctrine of original sin.

An Augustinian follows the principles and doctrines of Saint Augustine.

People also know Aurelius Augustinus in English of Regius (Annaba). From the Africa province of the Roman Empire, people generally consider this Latin theologian of the greatest thinkers of all times. He very developed the west. According to Jerome, a contemporary, Augustine renewed "the ancient Faith."

The Neo-Platonism of Plotinus afterward heavily weighed his years. After conversion and his baptism in 387, Augustine developed his own approach to theology and accommodated a variety of methods and different perspectives. He believed in the indispensable grace to human freedom and framed the concept of just war. When the Western Roman Empire started to disintegrate from the material earth, Augustine developed the concept of the distinct Catholic spirituality in a book of the same name. He thought the medieval worldview. Augustine closely identified with the community that worshiped the Trinity. The Catholics and the Anglican communion revere this preeminent doctor. Many Protestants, especially Calvinists, consider his due teaching on salvation and divine grace of the theology of the Reformation. The Eastern Orthodox also consider him. He carries the additional title of blessed. The Orthodox call him "Blessed Augustine" or "Saint Augustine the Blessed."

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Reviews

[Olivia Wedel · Rating 5 out of 5]

“The Confessions” is truly a remarkable piece of spiritual literature and philosophy and all readers can benefit from the redemption story that Saint Augustine has to tell. Through his retelling of the life he lived as a resistor of all things spiritual, to his reluctant, yet fruitful, conversion to the Christian faith, he gives a picture of the sinful ways of the human nature and the hope of the world found in Christ alone. These elements, combined with his reasoning on the Divine Mysteries, such as time and Creation, that follow, make this work both timeless and exceedingly important to the Christian Church.

[Giib Glib · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wish I could forget it all and read it again.